Contents Preface xi Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents xiii Introduction xv Chronology xlv Chapter 1 Early America 1 1. Navajo Sacredness for Nadleeh 1 2. Indian Sodomy in Florida (1528 and 1702 Reports) 2 3. Virginia Sodomy Law (1610) 3 4. The Execution of Richard Cornish (1624–1625) 3 5. William Plaine Executed in New England for Teaching Masturbation (1646) 4 6. African American Jan Creoli Killed and Burned in Dutch Colony (1646) 4 7. Sara Norman and Mary Hammon Accused of Lewd Behavior (1649) 5 8. New Haven Law Prohibits Lesbianism (1655) 5 9. Puritan Sermon on the Cry of Sodom (1674) 6 10. Illinois Indian Transgender (1677) 7 11. Pirates in the Caribbean (1724) 8 12. Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765) 10 13. Spanish Colonial Suppression of Sodomites in California (1775–1777) 11 14. Spanish Priests Condemn Transgendered Yuma Indians (1775) 11 Further Reading 12 Chapter 2 Early United States of America 13 15. U.S. Declaration of Independence (1776) 13 16. U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights (1791) 14 17. Bachelor Friendships of the Nineteenth Century (1840) 15 18. National Women’s Rights Convention (1852) 17 19. Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Poetry of Democracy (1860) 18 20. Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1868) 18 21. Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas (1870) 19 22. Females Passing as Men (1894) 20 Further Reading 21
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